Lady Gaga Accuses Glamour of Overly Retouching Her Cover Shot

"I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft."

By
Amy Odell

Nov 12, 2013

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On Monday night Glamour held its annual "Women of the Year" awards, where the magazine honors outstanding women. Gaga, the magazine's December cover star, received an award — and used her acceptance speech to call out the magazine for overly retouching her cover shot. Reports the Huffington Post:

"I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft," said the star. "I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning... I don't even look like this," referring to her wild wig and makeup for the evening.

She told her audience to "fight back against the forces that say you have to be beautiful." And:

"It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers... When the covers change, that's when culture changes."

Gaga did not speak out about the retouching Vogue did to her September 2012 cover— a before-and-after that went viral faster than she could glue a pearl to her face.